What is a very good low budget CPU?

[ImReadyD151]

For a computer that is going to cost 500$ what is a killer cpu. Should I go with amd or intel. My purpose for it would be simple gaming, a little video editing, and streaming just to give you an idea

 

[madmatt30]

Some misinformation regarding the 6300 IMO.
$100 total will get you a good quality board & cooler that will let you over clock a 6300 to your hearts content should you ever feel the need.

 

[ImReadyD151]

I'll continue the convo tomorrow, I gotta go to bed, thanks for the input today though

 

[callofDEEP]

I'll continue the convo tomorrow, I gotta go to bed, thanks for the input today though

yep... anyday

 

[damric]

We have benched these to death on Overclock.net. The Athlon 860K always ends up with higher minimum FPS in games (and higher overall) than the FX-6300. It seems to be due to the cache misses and latency issues found in all BD/PD chips.

The only thing the extra 2 piledriver cores are good for is streaming (like recording while you play). But in that case you should be getting the FX-8310 which is still cheaper (often $89 at Tiger Direct or Microcenter) and stronger than the FX-6300 for streaming.

 

[ImReadyD151]

We have benched these to death on Overclock.net. The Athlon 860K always ends up with higher minimum FPS in games (and higher overall) than the FX-6300. It seems to be due to the cache misses and latency issues found in all BD/PD chips.

The only thing the extra 2 piledriver cores are good for is streaming (like recording while you play). But in that case you should be getting the FX-8310 which is still cheaper (often $89 at Tiger Direct or Microcenter) and stronger than the FX-6300 for streaming.

By streaming you do mean live streaming right? For example twitch streaming?

 

[madmatt30]

The 860k performs better pretty much because of the higher clock speed only.
Bear in mind it really needs 1866 ram to match a fx6300 with 1600 ram.
I've stated my concern with the 860k (motherboard bios compatibility) & it really is a genuine concern.

 

[damric]

The 860k performs better pretty much because of the higher clock speed only.
Bear in mind it really needs 1866 ram to match a fx6300 with 1600 ram.
I've stated my concern with the 860k (motherboard bios compatibility) & it really is a genuine concern.

No. We have tested same clockspeed and the per core performance is about 15% higher with steamroller. And we use DDR3-2400CL9 in all of our testing.

 

[RazerZ]

Take the best qualities of the i3 and the FX-6300 and mash them together and you get an Athlon 860K. Overclocked to 4.5GHz the Athlon 860K actually catches the i5-4590 as well.

Can you post your benchmarks?

 

[damric]

Take the best qualities of the i3 and the FX-6300 and mash them together and you get an Athlon 860K. Overclocked to 4.5GHz the Athlon 860K actually catches the i5-4590 as well.

Can you post your benchmarks?

Sure, these are my personal ones. If you want to see the the thread with a larger sample of users, it's here.

Spoiler

 

[RazerZ]

Thanks 😀

I'll be sure to bookmark this page along with that thread.

 

[damric]

Hey don't get me wrong. There is one instance where it's very beneficial to have the more cores, preferably 8. That's recording gameplay and streaming at high quality. That's the one task that brings my Athlon to it's knees (and i3/i5) putting all cores at 100%. The FX-8310 can handle that much easier.

 

[damric]

Just ran this one today. Too bad it doesn't support CFX.